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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1983, 13 May 1875, Page 2

Inconveniences oe a Shobt Memory. —Mr Cooley's memory is exceedingly treacherous, and it often gets him into trouble. The othor night he was at a party at Smith's, and while the company sat round the supper-table Coolcjr sud- , denly concluded that he would eject a a conundrum he had heard somewhere, and so, in an interval of silence, he said " Iv'e got a pretty good conundrum I'd like you to guess. Can anybody tell me why a druggist who keeps his bottles down stairs is liko a certain kind of musician?" Everybody, at ; once began to guess the answer, and Cooley sat there for a moment smiling. Presently, however, he thought he would get the answer ready in order to give it, and to his intense alarm found that he had forgotten it. The company gave it up one after the other, and as they did so each one asked Cooly what the answer was. At last he exclaimed—" The ah—-the —ah—the tact is that—the affair —that is, the conundrum — the whole thing, 'pon honour." The everybody said they didn't see anything very amusing about jokes of such a character,' and Smith frowned; while Cooley heard the man next to his neighbor say that he, Cooly, must be drunk. Then Cooly rose suddenly from tho table and bolted out through the front door. .. About two hour afterwards, while lie was in bed, he all at once remembered the answer, and he instantly arose and went round to Smith's. After ringing the door bell for half an hour, old Smith put his head out of his bedroom window. <? I know it now,", shouted Cooley— *f I know. it; it is because he has a yial-in-cellar." Smith shut the window with a slam and went back to bed. And now the Cooloys don't speak to the Smiths, and old Cooley carries the. answers to his conundrums written on his shirt-caffs when he goes into company, so as to be certain that he will have them when .they are wanted.— American paper. " - • A Technical Em-anation ; One of pur compositors is troubled with the sad reflection that there is only an em (m) difference between creation and cremation-

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